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Five Came Back is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Farrow released in USA on 23 june 1939 with Chester Morris
Five Came Back (1939)
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Add to a movie listFive Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, and starring Chester Morris and Lucille Ball. The film was photographed by renowned film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, and written by Jerry Cady, Dalton Trumbo, and Nathanael West. Although considered a B movie, the positive notices received by Lucille Ball helped launch her as an A-list actress. Five Came Back is considered a precursor of the disaster film genre."
In 1948 Five Came Back was remade (differing only in minor details) as the Mexican film Los que volvieron. In 1956 producer-director Farrow remade the film as Back from Eternity starring Robert Ryan and Anita Ekberg.
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Nine passengers board a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Panama City: wealthy Judson Ellis (Patric Knowles) and Alice Melbourne (Wendy Barrie), eloping because their parents disapprove; an elderly couple, Professor Henry Spengler (C. Aubrey Smith) and his wife Martha (Elisabeth Risdon); Tommy Mulvaney (Casey Johnson), the young son of a gangster, and his escort, gunman Pete (Allen Jenkins); Peggy Nolan (Lucille Ball), a woman with a shady past; and Vasquez (Joseph Calleia), an anarchist being extradited and facing a death sentence for killing a high-ranking politician, and his guard, Crimp (John Carradine), who expects a $5,000 reward for delivering him. Pilot Bill Brooks (Chester Morris), co-pilot Joe (Kent Taylor), and steward Larry (Dick Hogan) comprise the crew.Actors
Chester Morris
(Bill Brooks)
Lucille Ball
(Peggy Nolan)
John Carradine
(Mr. Crimp)
Wendy Barrie
(Alice Melbourne)
Allen Jenkins
(Pete)
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